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Date: 2015-10-07; view: 457.

Degrees of Comparison

Adjectives and adverbs

Questions

Negative

For example:

· I am not working as a physicist now.

· These devices are not heating this week.

· Look! They are not placing the grid between the cathode and the plate.

For example:

· Is she working as a physicist now?

· Why aren't these devices heating this week?

· Look! They are placing the grid between the cathode and the plate at the moment, aren't they?

1) Adjective + noun

For example:

· a modern amplifier

· a good conductor

· a precise definition

But: Look/feel/smell/taste/sound/get + adjective

2) Verb + adverb

Adjective + -ly = adverb

For example:

· to control well

· to conduct readily

· to operate quickly

A.

Cheap – cheaper –the cheapest

Nice – nicer –the nicest

Big – bigger –the biggest

Early – earlier –the earliest

B.

Expensive – more expensive – the most expensive

Interesting – more interesting – the most interesting

But:

good – better - (the) best

little – less - least

bad - worse - worst

much/many – more - most

Noun	Verb	Adjective	Adverb	Translation	Transcription
control	control			управле­ние, управлять	(п, v)
decrease	decrease				(п) (v)
	depend (on, upon)
distance
density				плотность
increase	increase		increasingly		(n) (v)
insulator insulation				диэлектрик/ непроводник изоляция
				сетка
	place
					/
	result (in)

2. Read and translate the following international words:

Nouns (n): effect, function, idea, ion, mate­rial, metal, milliampere, reflector, result, secret, spiral, triode, volt

Verbs (v): compensate, control

Adjectives (adj): modern, miniature, standard